Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.
She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.
Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."
It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.
Never small and absolutely devastating. So very sorry.
Chwiorydd y Môr | Sisters of the Sea #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026
Happy International Women's Day!
3/8/1857 Garment and textile workers march in NYC, protesting low wages and poor working conditions
3/8/1917 The women's strike for "bread and peace" in Russia marks the first IWD there
3/8/1975 the UN officially marks 8 as International Women’s Day
The brilliant Betty Campbell #WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay #IWD
A highly detailed, digitally colorized close-up portrait of the pioneering physicist and chemist Marie Curie. She is looking directly into the camera lens with an incredibly intense, intelligent, and focused expression. The fingers of her left hand are gently resting against her cheek and neck. She has curly, textured brown hair pulled back loosely. She is wearing a dark blue, utilitarian dress with fine vertical pleats on the shoulder. The warm, realistic skin tones and soft lighting of the colorization process give this historic archival photo a highly modern, lifelike feel. Original archival photograph by Henri Manuel. Digital colorization by Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Marie Curie on International Women's Day!
Marie spent years working in a dank, leaky shed boiling down tons of toxic pitchblende to extract a 0.1 grams of pure radium.
She physically proved that atoms break apart, laying the exact foundation for cancer treatments! ☢️🔬
#WomenInScience
A digitally restored, archival composite image celebrating Rosalind Franklin. On the left is a black and white portrait of the British chemist and X-ray crystallographer. She has dark, softly curled hair and is wearing a dark, tailored dress, looking thoughtfully off-camera with a focused expression. On the right side is a clear, highly enhanced reproduction of 'Photograph 51'. This is her famous X-ray diffraction image of crystallized DNA fibers. The scientific image features a dark circular background with a distinct, striking arrangement of fuzzy black spots forming a perfect 'X' shape converging in the center. The heavy dark smudges at the very top and bottom of the circle indicate the repeating bases of the genetic code. The specific angle of the 'X' physically proves the double-helix structure of the DNA molecule. At the bottom, a professional credit line reads: King's College London and Seriously Scientific.
Remembering Rosalind Franklin on International Women's Day!
Without her mastery of X-ray crystallography and the iconic 'Photo 51', discovering the DNA double helix would have been impossible.
She measured the secret of life. Her exact math made gene editing possible! 🔬🧬
#WomenInScience
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Pawb! 🏴🏵 #PethauBychain
Looking forward to Chris Mason telling us how Reform are the real winners.
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
*Whispers through crack in the door*
The Timeless Children
*runs like billio*
Doing the work
On a side note, of which there are many currently, I remember when the then PM, Theresa May, was asked about the CSA files that had been collected on MPs. She said that they had been lost and were missing. And all people did was shrug and accept it. And that was the end of that.
The festive season is best when everyone feels welcome, but we don’t all celebrate it in the same way.
Small changes can make a big difference for people with learning disabilities, disabled people, autistic and neurodivergent people.
Anytime 🖖
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Today seems like a good day to remember Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), whose pioneering work in X-Ray diffraction led to the discovery of the structure of DNA – but only after one of her photos was stolen and shown to the men who would later win a Nobel Prize for the discovery (without citing her).
Also important to reflect on which groups & individual CYP might benefit from #accessarrangements, eg a quiet room, reader, scribe, movement breaks, comfy clothes, extra time, fidget items, laptop, standing desk, SEMH support …
TY @thewoodbug.bsky.social 🙏
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
They do seem to be increasingly chasing the right-moving Overton Window of late.
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
Completely agree. My take is a strange one in that, if they can weaponise the definition of a woman to cancel the conference, then surely, the definition of man should be played out using the same decisions. Misogyny plays differently for trans men and women.
I mean they do know this ruling applies to men too right?
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
I still mourn the destruction of the Birmingham library.
Will be over to order from @storyvillebooks.bsky.social in the week.
